DUXAP8 is significantly overexpressed in cancer tissues compared to nearby non-tumor tissues, according to observations (Ma et al., 2017b; Du et al., 2019; Chen et al., 2020a; Chen et al., 2020b; He et al., 2020; Yin et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2021a). Here, DUXAP8 is linked to cancer.